Movement members for the Renaissance of Cameroon (MRC) were pursued for “rebellion” and “attempt of insurrection”.
Le Monde with AFP
Forty-seven activists from the Cameroonian opponent Maurice Kamto, whose spokesman and treasurer, were sentenced to sentences ranging from one to seven years in prison, including “rebellion”, Declared Monday, December 27 at AFP a responsible for this political training.
These activists had been arrested on September 22, 2020, while their party, the Renaissance movement of Cameroon (MRC), and several others projected “peaceful marches” against President Paul Biya’s regime, to power without sharing since Thirty-nine years old.
The police had very violently dispersed hundreds of protesters, especially in Douala, the economic capital, in the south of the country. More than 500 protesters had been arrested in several cities across the country. And 124 are still detained, according to the MRC.
“Forty-seven activists of our party were sentenced to prison sentences by the Military Court of Yaoundé. The spokesman for Mauritius Kamto, Olivier Bibou Nissack, and Treasurer Alain Fog, scoop of seven years farm” , said the Deputy Secretary General of the Party, Roger Noah. “The others are sentenced to sentences ranging from one to five years” farm, he continued.
“Relentable repression of opponents”
The activists were pursued in particular for “rebellion” and “attempt of insurrection”, “said Emmanuel SIMH, Vice-President of the MRC. In September, a lawyer collective had given up defending about a hundred MRC activists, denouncing “arbitrariness” and “the illegality of their detention”.
m. Kamto, an unfortunate rival of the head of state re-elected in 2018 in a voting contested by the opposition, is as “the elected president” and was imprisoned without trial nine months during 2019 before being released at the end. intense international pressures.
The authorities have repeatedly ensured that the persons arrested on September 22 are continued in particular for “attempted insurrection” or “revolution”. Some have already been sentenced for these charges.
Two months after their interpellation, Amnesty International accused Mr. Biya’s regime to pursue an “relentless repression of opponents” characterized by “arbitrary arrests and detentions”.